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Powell: Feds doing their part, local leadership key
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| Last Edited | kal Aug 28, 2007 06:15am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The federal government is living up to its responsibility in helping the region recover from the 2005 hurricanes, but state and local leaders must do their part, too, in using the money that's been allocated, President Bush's Gulf Coast rebuilding chief said Monday.
"Money alone does not produce results," Donald Powell told a recovery summit on the eve of Bush's planned visit to the city to mark the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Since Katrina, the federal government has committed more than $110 billion in grants, loans and other aid to the region, and Powell said Bush would propose spending billions more to strengthen the New Orleans' area levee system to withstand a 100-year storm and to improve the area's drainage system. Levees, he said, are a federal responsibility.
Running the federally funded program meant to help homeowners rebuild is a state responsibility, he said, as is disbursing the $5 billion obligated so far by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for emergency work and rebuilding public infrastructure in Louisiana.
Yet the Road Home program, which has disbursed more than $3 billion amid criticism it's been too slow to give out grants, faces a projected multibillion shortfall, and barely half the $5 billion set aside for recovery and rebuilding had flowed from the state to the local level, he said.
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